Example sentences for: candor

How can you use “candor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the interests of promoting candor and protecting privacy, we agreed not to identify most individuals we interviewed.

  • This sort of statement of the obvious is known in Washington as "candor," and especially because Tamraz showed up without a lawyer and smiled and laughed throughout the day, his brand of it was enthusiastically received by the powers that be, including the newspapers.

  • Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .

  • Pepys's Diary owes its eventual status as a classic to its candor and the author's privileged position as an observer of Restoration England.

  • High-tech firms, long based on the free-flow and candor that e-mail encourages, are having second thoughts.


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